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Children are reading less and less. And adults? Well, we're not much better. A new report shows that kids need the time, space and a little helping hand to fall in love with reading. So why don't we h...

The long read: Between 2022 and 2023, as many as 170 rare and valuable editions of Russian classics were stolen from libraries across Europe. Were the thieves merely low-level opportunists, or were bi...

Libraries have shared their collections internationally for decades. Trump’s tariffs are throwing that system into chaos and can ‘hinder academic progress.’

On writing and picturing as forms of thinking and knowledge-making, with examples of Renaissance mapmakers and publishers demonstrating exactly this in the...

Welcome to the Sanford Berman website devoted to the work of librarian Sanford Berman who created an innovative, radical and inclusive catalog which used terms we use when looking for information instead of the 19th century language of the Library of Congress Subject Headings. Berman worked for the Hennepin County library from 1973 until 1999. Sandy continues to create subject headings and works for political and social justice.

In this article, the authors demonstrate how the data center has become a key site, object, and metaphor for interdisciplinary scholarship of the internet. Whil...

From research to work spaces to community building, libraries are an essential part of improving your writing life.

Here is the list of nearly 600 books banned by the Department of Defense in military schools across the globe.

According to a HarperCollins survey, most Gen Z parents don't see reading to their child as fun. Here's how to love reading to your kids.

To help you take advantage of the best reading season, we've created a Fall Reading Bingo Board with autumnal reading prompts.

The most popular horror on Libby includes many great bestsellers as well as a classic that was first published 128 years ago.

Sick of scrolling through junk results, AI-generated ads and links to lookalike products? The author and activist behind the term ‘enshittification’ explains what’s gone wrong with the internet – and ...

Banned books are not bad books

And the end of civilisation

An interview with Kyle K. Courtney, Director of Copyright and Information Policy at Harvard Library, on the Public Domain Corpus.

My vision was based on sharing, not exploitation – and here’s why it’s still worth fighting for

Conversations about open access can be riddled with distracting language. But what if we treated these failures to communicate as opportunities to learn more?

IFLA Journal is an international journal publishing peer reviewed articles on library and information services and the social, political and economic issues that impact access to ...